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HAP's annual Achievement Awards honor hospitals and health systems for their innovation, creativity, and commitment to patient care. The Achievement Awards showcase and share member hospitals’ and health systems’ successful programs and best practices.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital received the In Safe Hands Award for leading a multidisciplinary response to reduce nosocomial Candida auris infections in high-risk patients through advanced screening and infection prevention.

Two people have died in Pennsylvania due to the measles, state officials announced today.

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) announced today the health care teams being honored this year for championing organ, eye, and tissue donation within their hospitals and communities.

HAP's annual Achievement Awards honor hospitals and health systems for their innovation, creativity, and commitment to patient care. The Achievement Awards showcase and share member hospitals’ and health systems’ successful programs and best practices.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health today announced two separate measles cases in Lancaster County that may have exposed others in the area.

Insurers offering Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed must now provide data about prior authorization, denials, and response times.

Federal health agency leaders this month provided an update on a new voluntary initiative to support healthy food options in U.S. hospitals.

HAP's annual Achievement Awards honor hospitals and health systems for their innovation, creativity, and commitment to patient care. The Achievement Awards showcase and share member hospitals’ and health systems’ successful programs and best practices.

The Trump administration yesterday announced plans for a sweeping overhaul to the federal childhood vaccine schedule that again diverges from guidance from the nation’s leading medical organizations.

Ahead of the winter flu season, the FDA recently approved the first mRNA vaccine for older adults.